Posted on 10/04/2024 3:11:01 PM PDT by xxqqzz
—Order has begun to take the place of chaos which fro* reigned In Galveston since Saturday’s terrible storm and the citizens are recovering from tho stuplflcatlon of their sudden disaster. All previous estimates have been shattered by tho estimates of prominent men who declare that 3000 deaths will result from the storm. One hundred lives were loot at other points. It is thought that »10,000,000 will cover the loss of property at Galveston and more than halt as much for the remainder of tbe State. Advices say that 700 human bodies have been weighted and consigned to the sea. Some were Identified but more went to their graves unknown. Martial law prevails and vandalism la being put to a sudden stop. The sickening work of ghouls robbing the dead has been topped and fifty men have already paid for it In death. The water supply la adequate, and thereby tbe worst features of the situation Is eliminated. Provisions are being poured In by the carload. Many deaths have resulted from neglect of sanitary condition». Efforts are being made to clear up the debris. The telegraph companies have more work than they can handle, but no matter Is being refused.
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I read a book by a survivor. That is hardship.
The left is full of it. If there was a racial component to it, the newspaper would have specified same. They weren’t shy about that sort of thing back then.
A lesson for our modern National Guard and riots.
“A soldier of Captain Rafferty’s battery, while patrolling the beach, ordered a man to desist from looting. The fellow drew a weapon and the soldier shot him dead. The soldier was attacked by four other men and he killed all of them. He had five cartridges In his rifle and each of them found a victim. Other men have also been shot and It Is probable that twenty-five have been killed.”
Looters were shot
We were much more civilized back then......
Read about that hurricane. Sisters at an orphanage did not want any of the children to be swept away so the tied together link by link with rope. The bodies of the children and Sisters were found several days later, still connected by the rope.
My father had a box of random books in our storeroom when I was a kid. One of them was “The Great Galveston Disaster.” It was illustrated... some very graphic photos for a youngster, but also some very interesting survival stories.
It’s shameful to see how far we’ve fallen.
So sorry the town was devastated.
My daughter, son-in-law and I visited friends in Houston a few years ago. We drove down to Galveston because I had to be on the beach. Beach was disappointing but the huge fish dinner we had was memorable.
I read “Isaac’s Storm”, it was tough reading about St. Mary’s Orphanage, and those poor children.
...and not one mention of climate change.
The looters shot after the Johnstown flood were said to be “low brow Eastern European Huns.”
Don’t know the the race of those looters shot in the San Francisco Earthquake.
***some very graphic photos for a youngster***
Betcha Facebook would cover them as “Going against community standards.” They do some I find about the Indian wars.
Is anyone surprised that the usual suspects were looting? Nothing changes.
The 30 Deadliest U.S. Mainland Hurricanes
https://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/articles/deadliest-us-hurricanes
#1 is Galveston, TX in 1900 with 8,000 deaths.
Thank goodness President McKinley outlawed the horseless carriage otherwise we would have seen this time and time again.
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